, a pseudonym for one of the navy seals involved in the mission to kill osama bin laden is that the book's publisher, i believe was penguin press, they announced that with only weeks to spare, and i felt at least that they did a very brilliant job of marketing that book. of course, it doesn't help or perhaps it didn't hurt, depending on who you ask, that mark owen's real name was dutifully revealed by the media which then caused a fire storm and the like, but the upshot is many of the books, even with commensurate media attention, it doesn't translate into sales. where "no easy day" did phenomenally well. what's worth pointing out, too, anything to do with the killing of osama bin laden is back in the news again with the upcoming movie "zero dark thirty" directed by katherine bigalow and written by mark bowel, those responsible for "the hurt locker," and it's interesting to see that the cia's been cooperating, and, also, whether the account of the movie conflicts with the account in mark owen's books that conflicts with the act of bowden's book, piecing this together to piece together a
